While all that was going on down the hill at the lodge there was a whole other world of events happening up at the Moolman house. AfriCam was proving to be a rather popular website, and the daily page impressions were growing at a steady rate.

Not only was our lodge design based on local architectural and decorative trends, but we also wanted to involve the surrounding communities in other ways, such as skills acquisition, employment, and endorsing a general pride and celebration of Shangaan culture.

At the start of 1999 we decided to get moving on building our dream lodge to accommodate the potential flood of millennium visitors at the year-end. We knew where we wanted the lodge to be and the necessary completion date, but otherwise not much more.

In 1998 Jurie and I were considering what we should do as far as schooling for ZoŽ and Rebecca was concerned. Although they were having great fun growing up in the bush I was concerned lest they were not socializing enough with children of their own age. The staff children were usually only at the lodges during school holidays and sometimes over weekends.